I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEI
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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